MR. VARLEY ON THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 841, 24 December 1878, Page 2

MR. VARLEY ON THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.

(FROM OUR OWS CORRESPONDENT.) Wei.linotox, Dccembcv 23. In the course of an address at the Imperial Opera-house yesterday afternoon, Mr. Varley, the evangelist, referred at length to the second coming of Christ. There would, he said, be three judgments. The first was now close at hand. The Turkish Kmpire was being dismembered and swept away, and the course of events pointed to the early collection of the Jews in Palestine, and the rebuilding of Jerusalem upon a scale of the most magnificent grandeur. Benjamin Disraeli, the controlling power in the Eastern question, was himself a Jew, and was God's instrument to accomplish the great work. YVc were specially told that the Euphrates should dry up at the great day. It was now dicing up rapidly. The GOOO years of the world's history was nearly run out; twenty years at furthest would see the first of the three judgments. Then all Christians would be snatched up bodily into heaven, and the newspapers would be taken up for some time to come with the extraordinary and mysterious disappearance of a large number of persons ; they would be gone " as a thief in the night." The Christians would return to judge the world. This would be followed by a thousand years of Sabbatic bliss, when Satan would be b6und in chains ; but at the expiration of that time he would be loosed, and would gather the nations of the earth together to fight. King would rise against king, and nation against nation. So great would be the slaughter that it would take eight months to bury the slain. This would be followed by the great and final Judgment Day, when the dead were to be raised, and each one judged according to his works in this life.